When Angela meets an intriguing stranger, her settled life is turned upside down.

Angela Wright is a young black magazine writer whose life has settled nicely into place. Her fiancé, Keith, is a professor of African-American history, and her mother - an icon of black empowerment- can't wait for them to set the date.

But then she meets a colleague of Keith's and finds herself consumed with desire for someone who is not her fiancé, but also a woman.

Everything she believes is called into question and the answers she finds will surprise everyone - especially herself.

272 pages

Linda Villarosa is a freelance writer and former editor of The New York Times and she was also the executive editor of Essence magazine. She lives in Brooklyn, NY, with her partner and their two children. This is her debut novel.